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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Alfred a Knopf Inc
Publication date
June 14, 2005
Pages
331
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781400042180
ISBN-10
1400042186
Dimensions
1.75 by 6.50 by 9.75 in.
Weight
1.48 lbs.
Availability§
Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price
$24.95
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Reacting to a inexorable decline into consumerism, turpitude, violence, and racism, a government redistributes its citizens into four separate regions according to personality type, partitioning the country with concrete barricades and razor wire, until a boy, taken from his family and raised to become the perfect civil servant, embarks on a mission that will change his life forever. 25,000 first printing.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Following The Book of Revelationââa premise made terrifyingly real by a hugely talented writer,â wrote The New York Times Book ReviewâRupert Thomson now explores a radical social experiment in a novel both politically provocative and personally mesmerizing.
One night a boy who comes to be called Thomas Perry is taken from his family, caught up in a comprehensive unraveling of what had been a united kingdom. The powers that beâreacting to their countryâs inexorable decline into consumerism, turpitude, racism, and violenceâestablish in its place four independent republics based on the perceived nature of the citizens assigned to each, and reinforce these new partitions with concrete barricades and razor wire. Renamed, relocated, and granted favored status, Thomas enjoys one success after another until, as a devoted civil servant, he suddenly falls out of the system entirely and travels illegally throughout a realm now utterly divided, his life in constant jeopardy. And by witnessing the best and worst and strangest of what society and human nature can offer, he begins to understand how little he knows of his true self or the desires and needs that define satisfaction and happiness for everyone.
A highly realistic portrait of a world that doesnât exist, but which bears odd, unsettling resemblances to our own, this is fiction of supreme originality and accomplishment.
One night a boy who comes to be called Thomas Perry is taken from his family, caught up in a comprehensive unraveling of what had been a united kingdom. The powers that beâreacting to their countryâs inexorable decline into consumerism, turpitude, racism, and violenceâestablish in its place four independent republics based on the perceived nature of the citizens assigned to each, and reinforce these new partitions with concrete barricades and razor wire. Renamed, relocated, and granted favored status, Thomas enjoys one success after another until, as a devoted civil servant, he suddenly falls out of the system entirely and travels illegally throughout a realm now utterly divided, his life in constant jeopardy. And by witnessing the best and worst and strangest of what society and human nature can offer, he begins to understand how little he knows of his true self or the desires and needs that define satisfaction and happiness for everyone.
A highly realistic portrait of a world that doesnât exist, but which bears odd, unsettling resemblances to our own, this is fiction of supreme originality and accomplishment.
Editions
Hardcover
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from Alfred a Knopf Inc (June 14, 2005)
9781400042180 | details & prices | 331 pages | 6.50 × 9.75 × 1.75 in. | 1.48 lbs | List price $24.95
About: A government redistributes its citizens into regions according to personality type, partitioning the country with barricades and razor wire, until a boy, taken from his family embarks on a mission that will change his life forever.
About: A government redistributes its citizens into regions according to personality type, partitioning the country with barricades and razor wire, until a boy, taken from his family embarks on a mission that will change his life forever.
Paperback
Reprint edition from Vintage Books (July 11, 2006)
9781400076598 | details & prices | 332 pages | 4.75 × 7.50 × 0.50 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $15.00
About: Reacting to a inexorable decline into consumerism, turpitude, violence, and racism, a government redistributes its citizens into four separate regions according to personality type, partitioning the country with concrete barricades and razor wire, until a boy, taken from his family and raised to become the perfect civil servant, embarks on a mission that will change his life forever.
About: Reacting to a inexorable decline into consumerism, turpitude, violence, and racism, a government redistributes its citizens into four separate regions according to personality type, partitioning the country with concrete barricades and razor wire, until a boy, taken from his family and raised to become the perfect civil servant, embarks on a mission that will change his life forever.
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